Determining the Provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

R. B. Scott, B. Neyt, C. Hofman, P. Degryse

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Abstract

Portable XRF was used to analyse the chemical composition of 52 indigenous Cayo ceramics from excavations and from private collections on Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Initially, a comparative baseline of data representing three different islands (Grenada, St Vincent and Trinidad) was created by analysing with pXRF ceramic material that had previously been analysed both chemically and petrographically. The field data, when compared to the laboratory baseline data, indicated that the majority of the ceramics were made with clay local to Grenada. Four samples were potentially made with clay from another, as yet unidentified, source.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)966-985
Number of pages20
JournalArchaeometry
Volume60
Issue number5
Early online date22 Jan 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2018
Externally publishedYes

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